Apple's Mac gained market share in growing PC market
Apple Mac revenues rose 50% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2020 as global PC unit shipments increased 18%, driven largely by continued work-from-home and remote learning trends.
PC
Mike Peterson
Apple's Mac sees strong growth amid coronavirus-fueled PC market boom
Apple's Mac segment grew nearly 39% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2020 amid double-digit growth across the broader PC market.
Mac sales growth up 13% in Q3 on remote work, education trends
Apple Mac shipments rose 13% in the third quarter of 2020 alongside similar growth across the broader PC market, according to new data from Canalys.
Lawsuit accusing entire computer industry of patent infringement fails on missed deadline
A $350 billion lawsuit that accused effectively the entire computer industry of patent infringement has been dismissed because an opening brief wasn't filed by a July 2 deadline.
Editorial: Why Microsoft Surface isn't growing after seven years of trying
Across seven years of Microsoft's Surface experiment in designing and selling hardware, the company still hasn't found a breakout hit product. It now offers more products than ever— six major product lines, compared to the two it started with at the end of 2012. Yet its revenues have barely budged across the last decade. This quarter, Surface sales fell 4 percent over the year-ago quarter.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Editorial: Apple's move to ARM is possible because most users want power more than compatibility
What was once at least a concern and often the barrier that stopped Mac sales, cross-platform software compatibility is now mostly irrelevant to the wider user base — and we all stand to benefit.
William Gallagher
Apple in 2019 and the future of PCs
Over the past two decades, Apple has proven capable of exercising its rapidly lithe, innovating ability to take its existing technologies and create new computing forms that retain its influence over the most commercially successful and strategically important markets. That winning strategy of the past also appears to be the best suited for the future of PCs.
Apple's new macOS Mojave optimizes the Mac for iOS users, not PC switchers
Many industry pundits have fixated on how Macs are going to somehow merge with iOS, or seem to be confused about whether Apple wants PC buyers to upgrade to a Mac or an iPad. Some suggest the answer is a cheap Mac or macOS netbook. But as Apple's new macOS Mojave makes clear: they're wrong, here's why.
Editorial: The future of Steve Jobs' iPad vision for Post-PC computing
In 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad as a new product category between the smartphone and notebook. It ended up dramatically shifting demand in the PC industry, but sales have since plateaued. Here's what Apple can do, has done and is doing to build iPad into the Post-PC future of computing.
AppleInsider Staff
Josh Ong
Chris Smith
